One quick hack to make the shareholders happy with how much money you’ve been putting into a failing project: rename a successful one to the failing project’s name.

I’ve literally seen pants that have what looks like pockets but when you actually check there no actual pockets there. It’s like they cut the hole, made the folds, then stitched them closed.

It blows my mind!

asymptomatic long-COVID

The hell even is that? Asymptomatic means no symptoms. Long-COVID isn’t a contagious thing, it’s literally a description of the symptoms you have from having COVID and the long term effects.

God that makes my freaking blood boil.

Damn @[email protected] that was a hell of a conversation you we having.

I support the elimination of copyright in it’s current form

The way it was initially was fine IMO: 14 years, with an option to renew it at the end of those 14 years. ONCE.

Now in terms of patenting medications, if it was partially paid for with public money it’s the public’s patent. In other words it’s open for everyone. Made a new medication but took a government grant to help fund it? It’s public when it comes out, enjoy a nice hearty reward check for your efforts.

Don’t forget to donate to your favorite distro (and other open source projects) to help them keep the lights on.

Gotta do our part to fight the massive mega corps from devouring every aspect of our lives.

It captures them a shitton of data that they very likely sell or use to get advertisers on board.

Only if they chose not to compete

They only did the right thing after getting caught openly doing the wrong thing, so I’d say I’d still be pissed.

They should have never put the system in place with such a simple vulnerability (which to me) says they take such a laxodasical approach to security that I wouldn’t trust them even now.

1-2 FPS‽ The horror! faints

Jokes aside I can see more of a difference than that by simply forgetting to close a few tabs of YouTube before starting my games. Or even starting a game when my room is already hot.

1-2 FPS is basically a rounding error IMO.

Strip out the batteries and motors, hook them up to some after market controllers, slap them in a classic car, and now we’re cooking.

“You should have driven this much after owning the car this long, so we’re going to put that in the odometer.”

Was my guess.

Probably to void warranties, make cars come back sooner for preventative maintenance, and come back sooner for leases.

I’ve started using FreeCAD for CAD work, I’ve used Fusion 360 for 5 years before trying FreeCAD (again, I tried it a few years ago) and it works pretty good.

It’s different and it’s taking some getting used to but it’s working out quite nicely so far.

Slavery never ended in the US, it just got better PR.

“Only prisoners can be sentenced to slave labor.”

Makes a while bunch of stuff punishable by prison time and makes prison sentences longer.

Holy fuck!

That’s fucking awful!

How I’d do it is basically

72 * (10+3)

(72 * 10) + (72 * 3)

(720) + (3*(70+2))

(720) + (210+6)

(720) + (216)

936

Basically I break the numbers apart into easier chunks and then add them together.

On the note of “keeping your phone in airplane mode”:

No Bluetooth enabled devices is a good point too.

Those devices broadcast identifiable data whenever Bluetooth is enabled, and that data can be logged very easily. If an app has Bluetooth permissions it has the capability of logging that info. Or a simple device that logs nearby Bluetooth devices. About 2 years ago I placed a device in my apartment next to a road and within a week I had the habits of my neighbors logged with accurate timestamps. I took that device apart after that, it’s a macropad now.

So for the sake of privacy, no Bluetooth headphones, watches, etc near your “Go bag” phone when it has a battery in it. IMO avoid such devices in general.

I’m liking Linux Mint and Kubuntu personally.

Especially Kubuntu for my main desktop PC, Linux Mint for my little clunker PC I use to run my 3D printers.

Drinking soap makes my stomach upset and drinking alcohol makes me upset, that means I’m a human right?

Basically Lightroom is for editing photos in a specific format, there’s a couple alternatives that work well on Linux. Primarily Darktable and RawTherapee.

It’s really good at what it does and is basically an industry standard.

But Adobe being Adobe I really want to stop giving them money but I need to replace it first.

Mine that’s still on Windows is while I’m transitioning away from Lightroom.

It’s the only thing left at this point that’s holding me there.

I would just dual boot a system for when I need to use it but I really wanna stop using Adobe software for a number of reasons.